A100 Medical Course

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Dear University,

Could I please request the following information be released. The percentage of successful (successful being received an offer) applicants for your A100 Medicine course. That achieved the following GCSE results:
All 9s
Mostly 9s with the odd 8
Mostly 8s with a few 9s
Mostly 8s with a few 9s and 7s
Mostly 7s with a few 8/9s
Mostly 7s with a few 8s and 6s
Mostly 7s with a few 5/6s
Mostly 6s or below

Can the data please be for the year 2021.

Yours faithfully,
Tyler Walter

InfoRequest, Cardiff University

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Dear Tyler Walter,

I write further to my email of 5 April 2022 in which I acknowledged receipt of a Freedom of Information Act request with the reference FOI22-128 regarding Students - A100. I hereby acknowledge receipt of the further request regarding this subject (as attached for ease of reference) on 5 April 2022.

Further to the request that has been submitted on the 5 April 2022, please be aware that the Freedom of Information and Data Protection (Appropriate Limit and Fes) Regulations 2004 state that two or more requests to one public authority can be aggregated for the purposes of calculating costs if they are:
* by one person, or by different persons who appear to the public authority to be acting in concert or in pursuance of a campaign;
* for the same or similar information; and
* the subsequent request is received by the public authority within 60 working days of the previous request.

Accordingly your requests have been aggregated for this purpose.

Please note that for reference purposes, all of your requests regarding Students - A100 sent on 5 April 2022 are being dealt with under the same reference number FOI22-128 as the initial request and the have been recorded under the name of the initial requestor.

I will revert to you in due course with a substantive response to your requests. In the meantime, should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact me, citing the appropriate reference number allocated.

Yours sincerely

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InfoRequest, Cardiff University

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Dear Tyler,

Further to our email of 5th April, we need to understand more clearly the information you are seeking and I should be grateful if you could clarify the following:

Could I please request the following information be released for the year 2021. The percentage of successful (successful being received an offer) applicants for your A100 Medicine course. That achieved the following GCSE results:
All 9s
Mostly 9s with the odd 8
Mostly 8s with a few 9s
Mostly 8s with a few 9s and 7s
Mostly 7s with a few 8/9s
Mostly 7s with a few 8s and 6s
Mostly 7s with a few 5/6s
Mostly 6s or below

Please can you define the following terms?
Odd, few, mostly

If you can provide full details of the information you are seeking (eg 9s with 1x8, 2x8 etc) we can then arrange to search for the terms you are requesting. We are unable to use the terms above to complete a search of our system. Please note that the 20 working days response time has been paused as we are unable to process your request until this clarification is received from you.

Kind regards,

Swyddfa Ysgrifenydd y Brifysgol
Prifysgol Caerdydd
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Mae'r Brifysgol yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg neu'n Saesneg.  Ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn creu unrhwy oedi.
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Cardiff University
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Dear InfoRequest,
so odd, few and mostly are just put there to help pull an average! I don't need 'specifics' more the success percentage of students that has those as GCSE's.

If you would like to break It into specifics:
All 9's
9s 1x 8
8s 3x 9s
8s 3x 9s and 7s
7s with a 3x 8/9s
7s with a 3x 8s and 6s
7s with a 3x 5/6s
6s

Yours sincerely,
Tyler Walter

Tyler Walter